Combination rack and ironing-board



D. W. ROBBINS. COMBINATION RACK AND momma BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9. I919.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

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D. W. ROBBINS.

COMBINATION BACK AND IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9| I919.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

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COMBINATION BACK AND IRONING-IBOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application filed June 9, 1919. Serial No. 302,927.

Metcalf, in the county of Edgar and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Racks and Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. p

This invention relates to an improved combination clothes rack and ironing board, and an object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind which is simple, efli cient and practical in construction, and may be manufactured for arelatively low cost and sold at a reasonable profit.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind including means for supporting a clothes rack and an ironing board. In other words, to provide a pair of frames pivotally united, and an ironing board support on one of the frames, a rack on the other frame, and connections between the support and one of the frames, to support the ironing board and the clothes rack in different adjusted positions.

While the design and construction at present illustrated and set forth is deemed preferable, it is obvious that as a result of a 3 reduction of the invention to amore practical form for commercial purposes, the invention may be susceptible to changes, and the right to these changes is claimed, provided they are comprehended within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

7 In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved combined rack and ironing board, showing the same collapsed;

Fig. 2is a perspective View showing the combined rack and ironing board in its lowermost position;

Fig. 3 is .a sectional view vertically through the ironing board and rack supporting frame, showing the board and the rack supported in its uppermost position;

Fig. 4f is a side elevation of the frame showing the "same adjusted in an intermediate position;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the combined rack and ironing board adjusted in 1 auxiliary frames of the rack. 1 and 2 consist of the elongated side bars another position, whereby the clothes on the rack may be supported a substantial distance above the floor; and a Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of a porgion of the board 15 showing the latch thereor.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 and 2 designate the dominant and The frames 3 and l, which are reinforced relatively to each other respectively, by means of the intersecting brace 6. By means of a transverse rod or rail, of any suitable shape, preferably cylindrical, designated by the numeral 7, the two frames are pivotally united as at 8. For instance, this rod or rung extends through the sidebars of the frame, thereby pivotally uniting the frames so that theframes may be collapsed, as shown in Fig. 1, or opened up as shown in Fig. 3. It will benoted that the side bars of the frame 1 are longer than the side bars of the frame 2, and connecting the longer portions of the side bars 3 of the frame 1 are the rungs or rods 9 and 10, thereby additionally bracing the side bars 3. In fact, these rungs or rods 9 and 10 are secured in the side bars 3 as shown at 11. In fact, the rung or rod 7 is designed to be secured in the side bars 3 of the frame in any suitable manner (not shown). Pivoted by means of bolts 13 to the upper ends of the side bars 4 are supports 14 for an ironing board 15. The ironing board 15 is pivotally secured to one of the supports let by means of the screw 16, so that the ironing board may be swung laterally, that is in a plane parallel with the plane of the supports. These "supports 14: are provided with a plurality of notches 17, any opposite "two of which may engage the rung or rod 9 of the frame 3, so as to hold the frames 2 and 3 in different adjusted positions, so asto hold the ironing board at different heights. Secured to the sides of the supports 14:, by means of screws 18 are offset pieces 19. A clothes rack 20 is provided. This rack 20 comprises the two sections 21 and 22, consisting of the side bars 23 and 2 1. The side bars 23 are connected by the rungs or rods 25 and 26. It will be noted that the rung 26 pivotally connects the side bars 23 and 24 of the two rack frames, and

it is also notedthat the rung 26 acts as a part of the section 21, as well as a part of the section 22 of the clothes rack. The side bars 24 of the section 22 of the clothes rack are connected by the rungs 27, 28 and 29. The rungs 27 and 29 maybe secured in the side bars of the section 22, inany suitable manner (not shown) while the rung or rod 28 is secured'at 31 in the side bars 3 of the frame 1, so that the rung or rod 28 is capable of rotating in the side bars 24 of the section 22 of the clothes rack or rung 26 and is secured in the side bars 23 of the section 21 of the clothes line, so that the rung 26 may rotate in the ends of the side bars 24 of the section 22. The rung 25 is fixed in the side bars 23 of the section 21 of the clothes rack. By means of the offset pieces 19, the sidebars 23. of the section 21 of the clothes rack are positioned in alinement with the side bars 3 of the frame 1, there being pivoting screws 34 passing through the side-bars 23, the pieces 19 and through the supports 14. These screws or bolts 34 have nuts to hold them in place. The screws 18 also have nuts for holding them in place.

One edge of the ironing board has a recess 35, and also countersunk and secured in the edge of the ironing board over the recess is a keeper plate 36. A latch member 3'? is mounted upon the screw 38 of one of the supports 14, there being a washer between the latch and the upper edge of the support. One end of this latch has a curved thumb piece 39, to be engaged by the thumb, for raising the latch, and disengaging it from the keeper plate. The end of the latch having the thumb piece has a screw 40 passing therethrough, and threaded into the upper edge of one end of one of the supports, there being a spring 41 countersunk in said support and engaging under the latch, thereby holding the latch normally in such wise that the notch 42 may engage one edge of the opening of the keeper plate, so as to hold the ironing board in position on the support. Should it be desired to iron a shirt or other wearing apparel, through which the board most be inserted, pressure may be applied on the thumb piece of the latch, tilt the same against the'action of the frame, for disengaging the notch of the latch from the keeper plate, after which the board may be swung outwardly, from engagement with the supports to slip a shirt or other wearing apparel thereon. After'the articles of wearing apparel are ironed, they may be hung upon the rack above the board. The ironing board and the rack may be adjusted in different positions, that is in different heights and it will be observed that when adjusting the rack, the rack will assume different shapes, that is in cross-section. It

will be seen that any two opposite notches of the rung may engage the rung 10, so as to hold the two frames in different positions,

other than shown, so that clothes may be supported a substantial distance off the floor.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. In a device as set forth, the combination with a dominant frame and an auxiliary frame pivotally united, said dominant frame having transverse rungs, of a clothes rack consisting of a pair of sections connected to the dominant frame, board supports pivotally mounted upon the auxiliary vframe and connected to one of the sections of the rack, adjustable connections between the supports and one of the rungs of the dominant frame, and a board pivoted on one of the supports, and a latch on the other support having detachable connections with the board.

2. In a combined ironing board and clothes rack, the combination with dominant and auxiliary frames, comprising intersecting side bars, of means passing through the intersecting parts of the bars for pivotally uniting said dominant and auxiliary frames, said dominant frame havdominant frame, to brace the two frames and hold them in relatively different positions for governing the height of the iron-,

ing board support, an ironing board'pivotally mounted "upon one of the supports, means carried by the other support for holding the board in a detachable fixed position on the support, a clothes rack consisting of a pair of pivotally united sections, one section thereof being pivotally mounted upon the uppermost rung of the dominant frame, the other section of the clothes rack having pivotal connections with the ironing board support, whereby when the supports are adjusted for varying the height of the ironing board, the clothes rack may be adjusted.

3. In a device as set forth, the combination with a dominant frame and an auxiliary tachably connecting the two supports to any one of the rungs of the dominant frame, to hold the dominant and auxiliary frames in relatively different crossing positions, and at the same time adjusting the position of the clothes rack, the adjustment between the supports and the rungs also acting to vary the height and the angle of the board.

4. In a device as set forth, the combination with a dominant frame having rungs, of an adjustable clothes rack pivotally united to the upper part of the dominant frame, an auxiliary frame crossing the dominant frame, means for pivoting the two frames together at their crossing point, a pair of parallel board supports pivotally connected to opposite sides of the auxiliary frame, a board adjustable on said support, pivotal connections between the clothes rack and said supports, and adjustable connections 20 height of the board and at the same time 25 changing the position of the clothes rack.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL W. ROBBINS.

Witnesses:

' D. C. SPEELMAN,

ELMER ELLSBERRY. 

